OBVIOUSLY do not use AI, at all. AT ALL, for anything. I don’t wanna hear about the theoretical good version, it’s not what they’re pushing on us. The absolute worst people in the world have gone all in on this shit, and it needs to be starved out as much as possible. AI: not even once!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

to quote myself on this

Rand Paul out there sounding sane all the time because we’re living in the upside fucking down.

there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

Who is the commander in chief? What is command responsibility? Where does the buck stop? What is the unitary executive?

ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.

China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I think it's time to start calling Trump's immigration agenda what it is: ethnic cleansing.

The reporter targeted by Trump is ABC’s Rachel Scott. But the ABC News story weirdly steers away from mentioning it abcnews.go.com/Politics/law...

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

New in PN: Mike Johnson's downward spiral "His speakership is a story of chaos and failure at a time when he and his party should be racking up wins. Apparently, the Lord played a trick on his humble servant: He may have given Johnson the job, but He didn’t say he’d be any good at it."

Breathing easier -- study finds that congestion pricing worked in NY resulting in significant reduction in air pollution.

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

When given a choice between the oligarch class (like chip makers who want to sell to China) & the long-term security of the US & national interest as a whole, Trump ALWAYS chooses oligarchs because everything he does as president is for them. If only his supporters could see it.

The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws. Inevitable, but people are trusting it to read and write for them.

(I’ve been convinced since the summer that the way out of this involves people finding other people who, together, can increase their tolerance for taking risks)

The fact that a virus that has circulated unchecked for a couple decades is still causing entire flocks of birds to drop dead out of the sky should temper some people's views on viral evolution and herd immunity www.wlwt.com/article/dead...

Spoke with @dfriedman.bsky.social about Tom Homan & corruption at DHS. The fact that Homan’s acceptance of $50,000 cash did not disqualify him from a govt job sends the message to companies seeking to feed at the DHS trough that they can use such corrupt methods to obtain government contracts.

Your fellow reporter just got blasted on national TV by the president of the United States as "obnoxious" and "terrible" -- and you follow it up with a crappy question about the midterms, which are 11 months away. You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.

Rand Paul: "It has not been the history of the US to kill people who are out of combat. Even if there is a war, which most of us dispute -- that a bunch of people who are unarmed allegedly running drugs is a war -- we still don't kill people when they're incapacitated ... it's illegal and immoral."

If 44 million people would make such an impact, imagine, if you will, 340 million people!!!

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Sure, sure — right before we all get crammed into our Economy Minus seats on the plane with no AC, let’s have all the midlife crisis dudes work up a good sweat.

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

Odd? Maybe. Creepy as fuck. Definitely.

Duffy: "It's maybe a little odd for three guys to talk about nursing and options for nursing, but ...

When you hear the name Stephen Miller, two words come to mind: cruelty and chaos.

Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.

“They were trying to turn the boat back to where it could float.” Interesting confession

Because most of them aren’t worried about falling birth rates, they’re worried about control and racial primacy

U.S. manufacturing jobs have plummeted, despite promises to bring manufacturing back to US. The latest manufactural drop is the 5th monthly decrease this year, according to ADP. (Chart from Bloomberg)

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

www.snopes.com/fact-check/f... used almost a thousand agents for redaction

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.

I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS

Noem insisted that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/zyUfEvo

I think central planning by the dumbest guy you've ever heard of is bad for the economy

washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch

Ellison understands exactly what it takes to secure Trump's support and all the leverage the US Government can bring to bear. The corruption of this administration has no parallel in prior US history.

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that